Monty Python reunites!

I credit a lot of influences for my sense of humor. My parents are possibly the biggest influence on it. However, a close second? Monty Python.

So, you can imagine the kind of giddy-ness not seen since Beatlemania took the world by storm (hopefully I won’t be let down like when the Beatles Rock Band took my X-Box by disappointment), when I read that Monty Python will be reuniting for live shows!. An announcement about the forthcoming reunion happens this Thursday (with a live stream of the announcement available as well).

First, let’s start with a little background: If you don’t know Monty Python, Get out of my blogspace. Seriously. How can you read something called a comedy blog with absolutely no knowledge of Monty Python? I would describe Monty Python as the perfectly nerdy comedy group that has guaranteed a whole generation of people that quote their sketches will have difficulty ever getting laid. In all honesty, if you don’t know who they are, YouTube is your friend. I would consider them the fathers of absurdest sketch movement. There’s a direct line from the old Monty Python’s Flying Circus straight to current day Family Guy. The signature is all over it.

To the regular world? Monty Python is the reason Spamalot was a thing. It was basically a musical tribute to Monty Python’s movies “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Monty Python’s Life Of Brian” (Spamalot was written and staged by Python member Eric Idle).

To me, the big questions are this: Where and how much? My completely uneducated guess is: New York City, and a lot. You know, they’ve had such an influence on my life, I’m going to do everything in my power to go watch the show… While it would be nice to pretend they’re going to do such an extensive tour that they would come up to Albany, the realism of that thought fails to exist. I’m guessing this will be a major city tour only (sorry Albany, sorry Worcester).

There’s very rarely an event in my life where I go “I don’t care, just take my money”… But this is it.